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The basic idea of our crowd funding campaign is to obviously raise the money to finish the boat, and in return we will offer the opportunity to sail with us in the future. As mentioned above, we will not be making any profit from the trip, but will ask for £20/day to cover the cost of food, fuel, and keeping the boat afloat, so if someone wants to donate £200 to our campaign, for example, this will equate to 10 days of sailing in the future at a location of their choice! We will publish our route plan soon, but the first leg is from Suffolk, to cornwall, then to Morocco, where we will prepare for the Atlantic crossing, which will be around November. We will sail to Central America and the Caribbean where we will spend a few months cruising, before the hurricane season, then head South, eventually to Patagonia. We will spend the summer here before heading up the Chilean coast, and crossing the Pacific via Easter Island, to French Polynesia. If any of that takes your fancy, watch this space!
We will be looking for at least a couple of other more experienced sailors to join us on the big crossings, but otherwise no experience is necessary, and you can learn to sail on-the-job!